LastPass enables unlimited devices syncing for free users

[Batu69]

LastPass announced today that all users of its password management solution are now able to sync data across all their devices for free.

LastPass is a popular password management solution for desktop and mobile devices that uses the cloud for storage.

 

The company offers free and premium accounts to its users. Probably the biggest limitation up until now was that free users could only use LastPass on a single device class.

 

If you started out with LastPass for the desktop, you could sync your password database and other data only to other desktop devices.

If you wanted to use LastPass on mobile devices as well, you had to sign up for a Premium account to do so.

 

The same was true for the other way round. If you used LastPass on mobile devices, you could not sync to desktop computer systems unless you would upgrade the account to Premium first.

 

 

Premium accounts are not overly expensive at $12 per year if you pay annually, but the limitation put the company at a disadvantage when compared to services that did not restrict synchronizations.

 

Many cloud-based password management services -- Dashlane, 1Password or Sticky Passwords for instance -- have the same or similar limitations in place on the other hand.

 

The situation changes with today's announcement that all LastPass users can now sync their data across as many devices as they like.

The unlimited devices synchronization feature is no longer a premium feature but available to all users.

 

This means that you can install LastPass on the desktop as a free user, and sync your data to other desktop or mobile devices without signing up for a LastPass Premium account.

Closing Words

The move will make LastPass more attractive to users, especially those that require a password management solution on desktop and mobile devices but don't want to pay for it.

 

It will be interesting to see if the decision affects the number of premium subscribers of LastPass.

While Premium users get other options, e.g. more multifactor authentication options, shared folders, and desktop application passwords, it seems likely that unlimited synchronization of passwords and data was one if not the main feature for the majority.

 

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[jango]

this is good news

[DKT27]

Indeed it is. Somehow did not like using any other password manager on Android. So this is a good thing they did here.

[hdhxppro]

If someone can know your masterpassword and your email, they can find alll accounts.
Keepass + cloud >= lasspass premium
Because Keepass database will store in your computer
 

[fire]

31 minutes ago, hdhxppro said:

If someone can know your masterpassword and your email, they can find alll accounts.
Keepass + cloud >= lasspass premium
Because Keepass database will store in your computer
 

That's when you need multifactor authentication enabled for Lastpass login.

[DKT27]

3 hours ago, hdhxppro said:

If someone can know your masterpassword and your email, they can find alll accounts.
Keepass + cloud >= lasspass premium
Because Keepass database will store in your computer

 

I wonder, how do non-online password users sync across devices. Is it export / import mostly or is there something like sync on LAN that exists. Also, the one you have mentioned, does not necessarily have a good android app, more like, it has couple of non-official ones, has anyone had any experience in them.

[hdhxppro]

7 hours ago, fire said:

That's when you need multifactor authentication enabled for Lastpass login.

Yes, you're right but if oneday, lastpass would been hacked by other guy so you can't protect your account
You can store you information in Internet but you can't understand why you lost account in future.
Such as, Adobe, Yahoo,.. has been hacked by some guys.
( In 2013, 153 million Adobe accounts were hacked)
 

 

5 hours ago, DKT27 said:

 

I wonder, how do non-online password users sync across devices. Is it export / import mostly or is there something like sync on LAN that exists. Also, the one you have mentioned, does not necessarily have a good android app, more like, it has couple of non-official ones, has anyone had any experience in them.

You can use many plugin from keepass to sync/

 

Example, you can use KeePassDroid on Android.

 

 

[DKT27]

28 minutes ago, hdhxppro said:

Yes, you're right but if oneday, lastpass would been hacked by other guy so you can't protect your account
You can store you information in Internet but you can't understand why you lost account in future.
Such as, Adobe, Yahoo,.. has been hacked by some guys.
( In 2013, 153 million Adobe accounts were hacked)
 

 

You can use many plugin from keepass to sync/

 

 

Example, you can use KeePassDroid on Android.

 

 

 

Yes, it has been hacked before, so it can be hacked is quite understood by everyone.

 

Anything that supports sync on LAN, rather than internet in it.

[hdhxppro]

13 minutes ago, DKT27 said:

 

Yes, it has been hacked before, so it can be hacked is quite understood by everyone.

 

Anything that supports sync on LAN, rather than internet in it.

But I think Lastpass can't support sync on LAN.
For Keepass, I think you can share file database for other users on LAN. It's possible, one database and many users.